In Boston for the 4th?
If you’re coming to the Hub this summer, here’s a nice all-in-one guide for you to bookmark on your iPhone or other portable life support system. Pay special attention to the restaurants.
My Kind of Commercial!
What It’s All About
Bill Vallicella is one of my favorite philosophers. He manages so often to say better what we often think we know, but just as often cannot articulate so well. This post today made me think of an old friend from school. An atheist, but never satisfied with it; always searching for something more meaningful than… Continue reading What It’s All About
Astronomers Behaving Badly
In my 2005 biography of Georges Lemaître, I argued that Hubble’s Law should have been called Lemaître’s Law, as he derived the linear velocity-distance relation between galaxies two years before Hubble did. (That bastard.) Turns out, there was more going on behind the scenes at the time than people realized.
Christopher Lee Does Heavy Metal
Here’s the last segment of my video interview with Sir Christopher Lee, in which he discusses his Heavy Metal album, Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross. Enjoy!